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{"title":"The future of Biomedical Digital Libraries","authors":"Marcus A. Banks, W. Peay","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-3-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-3-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"3 1","pages":"5 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/1742-5581-3-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65652578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using geographic information systems to identify prospective marketing areas for a special library.","authors":"Rozalynd P McConnaughy,&nbsp;Steven P Wilson","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-3-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-3-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Center for Disability Resources (CDR) Library is the largest collection of its kind in the Southeastern United States, consisting of over 5,200 books, videos/DVDs, brochures, and audiotapes covering a variety of disability-related topics, from autism to transition resources. The purpose of the library is to support the information needs of families, faculty, students, staff, and other professionals in South Carolina working with individuals with disabilities. The CDR Library is funded on a yearly basis; therefore, maintaining high usage is crucial. A variety of promotional efforts have been used to attract new patrons to the library. Anyone in South Carolina can check out materials from the library, and most of the patrons use the library remotely by requesting materials, which are then mailed to them. The goal of this project was to identify areas of low geographic usage as a means of identifying locations for future library marketing efforts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Nearly four years worth of library statistics were compiled in a spreadsheet that provided information per county on the number of checkouts, the number of renewals, and the population. Five maps were created using ArcView GIS software to create visual representations of patron checkout and renewal behavior per county.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Out of the 46 counties in South Carolina, eight counties never checked out materials from the library. As expected urban areas and counties near the library's physical location have high usage totals.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The visual representation of the data made identification of low usage regions easier than using a standalone database with no visual-spatial component. The low usage counties will be the focus of future Center for Disability Resources Library marketing efforts. Due to the impressive visual-spatial representations created with Geographic Information Systems, which more efficiently communicate information than stand-alone database information can, librarians may benefit from the software's use as a supplemental tool for tracking library usage and planning promotional efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"3 ","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/1742-5581-3-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26396307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multimedia Bootcamp: a health sciences library provides basic training to promote faculty technology integration.","authors":"Ellen C Ramsey","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-3-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-3-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Recent research has shown a backlash against the enthusiastic promotion of technological solutions as replacements for traditional educational content delivery. Many institutions, including the University of Virginia, have committed staff and resources to supporting state-of-the-art, showpiece educational technology projects. However, the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library has taken the approach of helping Health Sciences faculty be more comfortable using technology in incremental ways for instruction and research presentations. In July 2004, to raise awareness of self-service multimedia resources for instructional and professional development needs, the Library conducted a \"Multimedia Bootcamp\" for nine Health Sciences faculty and fellows.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Case study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Program stewardship by a single Library faculty member contributed to the delivery of an integrated learning experience. The amount of time required to attend the sessions and complete homework was the maximum fellows had to devote to such pursuits. The benefit of introducing technology unfamiliar to most fellows allowed program instructors to start everyone at the same baseline while not appearing to pass judgment on the technology literacy skills of faculty. The combination of wrapping the program in the trappings of a fellowship and selecting fellows who could commit to a majority of scheduled sessions yielded strong commitment from participants as evidenced by high attendance and a 100% rate of assignment completion. Response rates to follow-up evaluation requests, as well as continued use of Media Studio resources and Library expertise for projects begun or conceived during Bootcamp, bode well for the long-term success of this program.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>An incremental approach to integrating technology with current practices in instruction and presentation provided a supportive yet energizing environment for Health Sciences faculty. Keys to this program were its faculty focus, traditional hands-on instruction, unrestricted access to technology tools and support, and inclusion of criteria for evaluating when multimedia can augment pedagogical aims.</p>","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"3 ","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/1742-5581-3-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25993983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conceptual biology, hypothesis discovery, and text mining: Swanson's legacy.","authors":"Tanja Bekhuis","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-3-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-3-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Innovative biomedical librarians and information specialists who want to expand their roles as expert searchers need to know about profound changes in biology and parallel trends in text mining. In recent years, conceptual biology has emerged as a complement to empirical biology. This is partly in response to the availability of massive digital resources such as the network of databases for molecular biologists at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Developments in text mining and hypothesis discovery systems based on the early work of Swanson, a mathematician and information scientist, are coincident with the emergence of conceptual biology. Very little has been written to introduce biomedical digital librarians to these new trends. In this paper, background for data and text mining, as well as for knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) and in text (KDT) is presented, then a brief review of Swanson's ideas, followed by a discussion of recent approaches to hypothesis discovery and testing. 'Testing' in the context of text mining involves partially automated methods for finding evidence in the literature to support hypothetical relationships. Concluding remarks follow regarding (a) the limits of current strategies for evaluation of hypothesis discovery systems and (b) the role of literature-based discovery in concert with empirical research. Report of an informatics-driven literature review for biomarkers of systemic lupus erythematosus is mentioned. Swanson's vision of the hidden value in the literature of science and, by extension, in biomedical digital databases, is still remarkably generative for information scientists, biologists, and physicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"3 ","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/1742-5581-3-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25947604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scopus database: a review.","authors":"Judy F Burnham","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-3-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-3-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Scopus database provides access to STM journal articles and the references included in those articles, allowing the searcher to search both forward and backward in time. The database can be used for collection development as well as for research. This review provides information on the key points of the database and compares it to Web of Science. Neither database is inclusive, but complements each other. If a library can only afford one, choice must be based in institutional needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"3 ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/1742-5581-3-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25891760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The \"impact factor\" revisited.","authors":"Peng Dong, Marie Loh, Adrian Mondry","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-2-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/1742-5581-2-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The number of scientific journals has become so large that individuals, institutions and institutional libraries cannot completely store their physical content. In order to prioritize the choice of quality information sources, librarians and scientists are in need of reliable decision aids. The \"impact factor\" (IF) is the most commonly used assessment aid for deciding which journals should receive a scholarly submission or attention from research readership. It is also an often misunderstood tool. This narrative review explains how the IF is calculated, how bias is introduced into the calculation, which questions the IF can or cannot answer, and how different professional groups can benefit from IF use.</p>","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"2 ","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1315333/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25718184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relevance similarity: an alternative means to monitor information retrieval systems.","authors":"Peng Dong,&nbsp;Marie Loh,&nbsp;Adrian Mondry","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-2-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-2-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Relevance assessment is a major problem in the evaluation of information retrieval systems. The work presented here introduces a new parameter, \"Relevance Similarity\", for the measurement of the variation of relevance assessment. In a situation where individual assessment can be compared with a gold standard, this parameter is used to study the effect of such variation on the performance of a medical information retrieval system. In such a setting, Relevance Similarity is the ratio of assessors who rank a given document same as the gold standard over the total number of assessors in the group.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study was carried out on a collection of Critically Appraised Topics (CATs). Twelve volunteers were divided into two groups of people according to their domain knowledge. They assessed the relevance of retrieved topics obtained by querying a meta-search engine with ten keywords related to medical science. Their assessments were compared to the gold standard assessment, and Relevance Similarities were calculated as the ratio of positive concordance with the gold standard for each topic.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The similarity comparison among groups showed that a higher degree of agreements exists among evaluators with more subject knowledge. The performance of the retrieval system was not significantly different as a result of the variations in relevance assessment in this particular query set.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In assessment situations where evaluators can be compared to a gold standard, Relevance Similarity provides an alternative evaluation technique to the commonly used kappa scores, which may give paradoxically low scores in highly biased situations such as document repositories containing large quantities of relevant data.</p>","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"2 ","pages":"6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/1742-5581-2-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25200624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2004 (DCT 2004).","authors":"Mark A Spasser","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-2-5","DOIUrl":"10.1186/1742-5581-2-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"2 ","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1187867/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25162362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PMD2HD--a web tool aligning a PubMed search results page with the local German Cancer Research Centre library collection.","authors":"Andreas Bohne-Lang,&nbsp;Elke Lang,&nbsp;Anke Taube","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-2-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-2-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Web-based searching is the accepted contemporary mode of retrieving relevant literature, and retrieving as many full text articles as possible is a typical prerequisite for research success. In most cases only a proportion of references will be directly accessible as digital reprints through displayed links. A large number of references, however, have to be verified in library catalogues and, depending on their availability, are accessible as print holdings or by interlibrary loan request.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The problem of verifying local print holdings from an initial retrieval set of citations can be solved using Z39.50, an ANSI protocol for interactively querying library information systems. Numerous systems include Z39.50 interfaces and therefore can process Z39.50 interactive requests. However, the programmed query interaction command structure is non-intuitive and inaccessible to the average biomedical researcher. For the typical user, it is necessary to implement the protocol within a tool that hides and handles Z39.50 syntax, presenting a comfortable user interface.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>PMD2HD is a web tool implementing Z39.50 to provide an appropriately functional and usable interface to integrate into the typical workflow that follows an initial PubMed literature search, providing users with an immediate asset to assist in the most tedious step in literature retrieval, checking for subscription holdings against a local online catalogue.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>PMD2HD can facilitate literature access considerably with respect to the time and cost of manual comparisons of search results with local catalogue holdings. The example presented in this article is related to the library system and collections of the German Cancer Research Centre. However, the PMD2HD software architecture and use of common Z39.50 protocol commands allow for transfer to a broad range of scientific libraries using Z39.50-compatible library information systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"2 ","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/1742-5581-2-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25159490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Good old days?","authors":"Charles J Greenberg","doi":"10.1186/1742-5581-2-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-5581-2-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alternative models of subsidizing scholarly publishing and dissemination have germinated and gathered momentum in the fertile soil of dissatisfaction. Like the stubborn spring dandelion that needs but a small crack in the sidewalk to flower boldly, the first flowers of Open Access in library literature, including Biomedical Digital Libraries, have sensed their opportunity to change the existing paradigm of giving away our scholarship and intellectual property, only to buy it back for the privilege of knowing it can be read. Will biomedical digital library and informatics researchers understand their role in a new era of Open Access simply by desiring an immediate uninhibited global audience and recognizing the necessity of open access peer-reviewed literature to become self-sufficient?</p>","PeriodicalId":87058,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical digital libraries","volume":"2 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/1742-5581-2-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25229347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}